Game board



prr 15 1924. 1,490,53

. H. WISCHHUSEN ET Aa.

GAME BOARD Filed Jan. 28. 1922 nven 10s j- Hen'fy W'ischhusen, Emily/9.mech7/merg atente-cl, l5, 1924.

- 'STATES HENRY WISOHHUSEN, QF MALDEN, AND EMILY A. WISCHHUSEN, OFEVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME BOARD.

Application led January 28, 1922. Serial No. 532,521.

To all whom z't may concer/n.'

Be it known that we, HENRY WIsoH- HUSEN and EMILY A. WIsoHHUsEN,citizens of the United' States, residing at Malden and e Everett,respectively, in the-county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented' certain new and useful Im rovements in Game Boards, ofwhich the fo lowing is a specification. l

The object ofthis invention is the devising of a game board which shallbear the representations of substantially all the cards of a deck, andwhich can be played by means of counters or men controlled by dlce orother le number designating means.

The game to which we show the invention as applied is of the well-knownparcheesi `type, the various movement-spaces on such a game-boardbearing the representations of the different members of a deck of cards.

The drawing forming part of this specification illustrates a game-boardembodying our invention, a part thereof being represented as brokenaway.

As in a parcheesi game, the board l is provided with a central space 2usually termed l1ome, and spaces 3 at the corners for the counters 4before entering their turn upon the course, and for the dice 5.

Between the home 2 and each edge of the board is a series of blankspaces 6 having at each side of such row of spaces 6 an equal number ofspaces 7 each bearing the representation of some one of the cards of adeck, w the number of the spaces being such that, in-

cluding the spaces between adjacent corners of the rows 7 in which islocated the representation of a ca rd 9, every one of the entirefifty-two is shown. We a so indicate in the home 2 the joker 10, inorder to provide for the deck of fifty-three which many players desireto have.

Instead of the four men usually apportioned to each player in parcheesi,we prefer e5 to provide five, but in many other ways the game is similarthereto. The men are entered on the spaces bearing the ace nearest eachplayer, each manor counter 4 being allowed to be entered upon such spacewhen his player has thrown a pair of dice which show five spots. Afteracounter has thus been entered it can be moved to other spaces inaccordance with further throws of the dice. For example, if a pair ofdice turn up a four and a five, the entered counter can' be moved alongnine spaces, or if the player has two counters entered, he can move onefour spaces and the other live; and so on around the board until home isreached. In these respects, the game is played substantially likeparcheesi, the main difference consisting in the scoring.

No man can enter a space already occupied, and if the numberv thro-wnwould bring a man to an occupied space, then it must be returned.

The principle of the game is to scoreas often as posslble before the menreach the home path 6, the degree of each score depending upon which ofthe various cards the men have rested. What we prefer is to have thescoring done according tothe rules of poker. For example, the score fora royal flush 100, straight flush 90, 4 of a kind 80, full house 70,flush 60, straight 50, etc.-

The player having man on ace of hearts, another on ace of diamonds andyanother on ace of clubs has 3 of a kind and is entitled to score 40.

The player first bringing all'his men home concludes the game, andscores are to vbe added to decide the winner.

What we claim is:

A game board comprising a central home space, and rows of spacessurrounding and leading to the same, certain of said spaces bearing therepresentations of playing-cards employed in the game of poker, whereoncounters are moved according to throws of dice to rest upon certain ofsaid spaces, said spaces being held to score an amount relative to thatwhich playing cards score in the game of poker.

In testimony that we cla-im the foregoing invention, we have hereuntoset our hands this 27th day of January, 1922.

HENRY WISCHHUSEN. EMILY A. WISCHHUSEN.

